Debra Salt

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I build and fix systems that people use every day. Some days I’m writing new code, other days I’m debugging something small but frustrating. I enjoy solving problems step by step. It takes patience, but it’s rewarding when things finally work.

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AI didn't remove your bottleneck. It moved it onto the one person who can't scale.

Throughput per developer is up 33.7%. Median time in code review is up 441.5%. If you're a solo maker, you are the review queue and you quietly stopped showing up for the shift.

There's a report that came out this spring that I keep coming back to, and I don't think it landed properly with makers because it's written for engineering leaders at big companies. Faros AI published "The Acceleration Whiplash" in April two years of telemetry from 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams. Not a survey about how developers feel. Actual measurement of what came out the other end.

📱 When Does SaaS Need a Mobile App?

Does every SaaS product need a mobile version?

For some products, mobile feels essential.
For others, it feels like forcing a desktop workflow onto a smaller screen.

We re building a mobile version for RunEvr - mainly to stay up to date, chat with the team, check project progress, and quickly respond when you re away from your desk.

A few things I m curious about:

We got our tool to write its own bug-reproduction tests

The gap most auto-fix tools have

They tell you the bug is fixed. They don't show you. Our rule has always been: make the bug happen on real code, apply the fix, show it stops happening. The gap was we could only do that for bugs we'd scripted in advance. Anything unusual and the honest answer was "found it, fixed it, can't prove this one."

What we built

We taught FetchSandbox to write the reproduction itself, no pre-scripted test required.

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